Match Day 2009
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Image 1: In a UC Irvine Match Day tradition, medical school graduates place $1 donations into an old satchel as they come to a podium to read their acceptance letters. Carl Smith will be moving his family to Albuquerque, where he will begin an emergency-medicine residency at the University of New Mexico this summer.
Image 2: Friends, family and fellow medical students cheer on Match Day participants, who anxiously await their turn at the podium, where they will unseal and read aloud letters revealing where they'll start their careers as doctors.
Image 3: Linh Dang holds her Match Day acceptance letter above her head in a gesture of joy and triumph. She will be a family-medicine resident at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose.
Image 4: The annual Match Day ceremony, held simultaneously at every medical school in the country, is as much a celebration as it is a valediction, complete with noisemakers and cheering.
Image 5: Jennifer Su, one of the 76 UCI medical school graduates who participated in this year's event, will be a psychiatry resident at UCLA.
Image 6: Amir Otarodi, left, and Pooya Javeidaan celebrate Otarodi's placement in the USC orthopedic-surgery residency program with a midair body slam, much to the amusement of the audience.
Image 7: Dorothy Liu exults upon learning she'll be a psychiatry-family medicine resident at UC San Diego.
Image 8: Dr. William Gustin, background left, and other medical school faculty applaud Molly Deane for securing a general-surgery residency at UCI.
Image 9: Esthela Lopez cheers as her daughter Sarah, left, is called to the podium to open her acceptance letter. Sarah Lopez, who's also earning an M.B.A., is among the first four graduates of UCI's PRIME-LC program.
Image 10: Sarah Lopez, center, and her father, mother and three sisters anticipate her residency match with nervousness and joy.
Image 11: Sarah Lopez learns that she'll be joining the emergency-medicine residency program at USC.
Image 12: Sarah Lopez is relieved that she'll get to practice medicine in the program of her choice and remain close to her family, who live in Orange County.
Image 13: Surrounded by family, Esthela and Sarah Lopez share a victory hug. “My family isn't saying that I'm becoming a doctor,” Sarah says. “It's: We're becoming a doctor.”
Image 14: The Lopez family gathers closely to read a greeting card, while Sarah looks over her match letter again.
Image 15: The four pioneering PRIME-LC students who were matched this year - Gabriel Rivera, Sarah Lopez, Anna Altshuler and Carl Smith, from left - pose together for well-wishers.
Image 16: Van Hoang reaps the benefit of being last called to the podium. Each preceding student contributed a dollar to the satchel, and tradition dictates that she gets to keep the bounty. “I'm going shopping,” Hoang says.
Image 17: Fist raised in triumph, a Match Day participant prepares to join the others in a worldwide medical community dedicated to improving health and saving lives.
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A 'match' made in medicine
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